The Forrest City times., 1887-12-17
Woman on the Farm.


 Harper's Ba2ar has long article on "Why Should Not the Woman Be a Farmer?" Tho Bazar walks around the question several times, prods it up onto it's feet examines it closely. and con cludes that there is no reason why she shouldn't t. Why" it continues. ''well clad and shod, should she not follow in the furrowp'' I'll tell you my fashion plate friend or better, I'll give you a little illustration from personal exper- renee why she should not. or, if she will. show how it may be rough on her.
 have followed in the furrow" my self and have helped to raise the al. ready high rate of mortality of the peo- pie in the position. have died in the furrow several times. That is l have lad down and tried to die as hard as could.
 remember once particularly when was about sixteen years old and was fol- lowing the furrow over by Johns woods with the colts. 1 was going along all right when suddenly the plough handle rose and hit me somewhere in the region of the stomach. or. to speak in medical pharse. about on the third vest button, and then 1 laid down on the moist earth and silently prayed for death.
 AL the end of five minutes had strength enough toroll and kick and fill the ar with cloud of dirt and howl loud enough to scare the colts so they ran away to the other side of the field where they laid down and braided their legs all up with q barbed wire fence. After five minutes of this 1 was able to open my eyes and saw the cold, stony. mocking smile on the tonton rock. now protruding above the ground. which had caused tho slaughter. Another five minutes and had recovered the power of speech and used it, but let us draw vail over this; all Iwish tosay IS to ask the Bdzar where it's woman will be in such case as this? It might not go any harder with her than it did with me. But even if it didn't the BaSar would have hard work to ever delect that wo- man following in the furrow" again
 Again il asks; "Why should she not drive the team a-field2" Why? Why, be- cause she can't drive it a-street yet not W thout running down two or three men and half dozen children. going right over street car colliding with a load of hay, and trotting the team up hill till the horses have to lean up against lamppost to recover their breath. If inc woman ever gets to mak- ing a practice of driving the team R. field the growing crops will be all tram pied down and there will be famine.
 Q ''The Sun" insists the Bazdr, ''is no less hot in the garden than on the beach. No. the Baxar has struck it now. II isn't any less hot, but 1t is about 15O ? more hot; and sometimes it may. crawl mp 200 or 3o0o hotter. And sultry, too. And muggy, also. And 1 likewise sunstrucky. The Bazar's wo- man will fine it out when she gets into the garden.
 Tie Bazar admits that perhaps some of the hardest of the work might some- times be done by '.hirelings and assis- tants." That is the Bazar's way of re- ferrlng to the hired man. But there is more trouble here. When he comes back from town Sunday night wearing 1 a new red and blue Mackinaw suit and begins to crook his elbows, and walk around the yard with his chin out look ing for something to fight, the woman farmer wil have to go of and hire some male farmer to come and pound the man all over the place and get him | down ready for the weeks work. Till a woman can lick the hired man and spear the bogus patent-right sharp with pitchfork at 20 paces she has no busi- 1 ness on farm.
 l 6 There are doubtless other objections 10 the woman on farm, but l trust in 1 these few lines I have least shown that the successful woman farmer does not so much require to be an accomplished musician and skilful amateur artist as that she shall be able to hold an unruly plough down in the ground when 1t tries | to buck. and have the faculty of chas- ing tramp over the henhouse and down across the pasture. and of hitting him with an irou pump-handle as he gets over the fence. E. H Carrath, ia Chi. sago lf7hase,